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According to this the nuclear powered version was never built or converted, only the testbed to study the effects of the reactor on the instruments and pilots.

There is some speculation that the B-2 has a small nuclear reactor onboard, that suposedly powers an electrogravity system that reduces the mass of the plane and payload by 89%. See here

There is some speculation that the B-2 has a small nuclear reactor onboard, that suposedly powers an electrogravity system that reduces the mass of the plane and payload by 89%.

It's not every day that you see people speculating to two significant digits.

interesting links - 134 - pretty much as I said - i remembered pretty good after all these years - "A total of 47 flights were made up to March of 1957. The NB-36H was decommissioned at Fort Worth in late 1957. It was scrapped several months later, with the radioactive parts being buried"

As far as the b-2 - being electrogravinometric, I seriously doubt that. it is 1970's-early 80's technology. And as far as airmen being electrocuted, that may be. All aircraft build up charges of static electricity and the first thing a ground crew does after landing and chocking the wheels is to ground the plane. As the b-2 has some special coatings, it may be quite possible that it becomes a giant super capacitor.